Howdy Y'all
Hey everyone!
This week was a good one! We got our new companion, Elder Allred. He's a good kid from Clearfield, Utah and he's excited to work! Not a whole lot to report on this week.
Elder Mendenhall were out knocking and some lady lost her dog and told us to keep an eye out for him. The next door we knocked the dog came sprinting at us from around the corner, and we caught it and returned to to the owner. Nothing came of it but it was a very cute husky so that's a tender mercy.
Halloween was pretty cool! We worked all the way up until 4 and then we went to the stake center and watched "The Best 2 Years" I had never seen it, but it's a good one haha.
We had a "Why I believe" fireside last night, where recent converts share their conversion stories and testimonies. Also, the missionaries form a choir and we sing a few songs. They are always way awesome!
Elder Rose and I were asked to give a training tomorrow at MLC. The crazy part is, it's on urgency, the thing I emailed y'all about last week! Pretty cool that I've had this on my mind and now we have an opportunity to train on it. Just goes to show that President Leishman is an inspired man, I don't think he sees my emails at least haha.
I love you all and I hope you have a great week!
"If All Men Were Like unto Alf Gun"
Hello everyone!
This week has been another good one! We had the Port Angeles Elders staying with us for a couple nights so they could save miles to come with us to MLC. One of them is my old comp Elder Terry so it was fun to be with them. We even had a campfire in the backyard and roasted mallows and knocked back some m deezys, it was pretty cool. The training we gave at MLC went well! Well enough that we are giving it twice again at zone conference tomorrow haha.
I have a pretty cool story this week. So we have a couple of investigators named Don and Katie, they are an awesome old couple. They watched general conference and have been lightly reading the Book of Mormon. They don't have a car, but they were willing to walk to church, but I've seen Don walk and he just gets so winded. So we found some fellowship for them! There is a legend by the name of Alfred Gunn, he's ex-FBI and everyone in Gig Harbor knows him. He's very active in the communityand even volunteers for the GHPD. We texted him while we were at Don and Katie's home and told him we left them with his number. He immediately responded asking what their address was. When we left the appointment, he was pulling up to introduce himself and invite them to the chili cook off before church on Sunday. He brought them to church and absolutely took over, he sat with them and gave them a church tour. It was incredible.
Other than that it was just a bunch of hard work this week! I love you all!
Elder Goldsberry
"ThanksGIGing"
Well hey there everyone!!
This week was a great one! We had zone conference and it was a ton of fun! The training Elder Rose and I gave went pretty well. At the end of us giving it the second time, the APs said we needed to take 10 more minutes because lunch wasn't ready, so we had some missionaries run a relay race to show urgency haha. There are some changes that came with this zone conference, and it gets me really excited! It shows that there truly is an urgency to this work.
We have a UBC (unbaptized child of record) baptism tomorrow that kinda just fell into our laps. We have been working super hard and have been brought to much prayer and fasting (Alma 17:3) and we are being blessed for it. The mother of the child getting baptized used to work for President Leishman, so that was way cool to have that connection.
I had a pretty cool experience. Just a little backstory, we are reading the Book of Mormon as a mission and I decided to pray to receive a spiritual witness that the Book of Mormon is true. I'm pretty deep into it and I hadn't received it. My testimony is not struggling by any means at all, but I was a little sad that I hadn't gotten it when Elder Rose had. Anyways, we were knocking and we found someone who said they were interested and to come back the next day. We did and he ended up bashing us. I did my best to defend the faith without getting confrontational. At the end of it we gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and he said "So if I found anything wrong in this book, does that make your church wrong?" I told him yes, it is the keystone of our religion and if it's wrong then so are we. I then bore powerful testimony that everything in the book is true and he can know for himself by reading and praying. In that moment I felt the spirit fill me and give me my confirmation that the Book of Mormon is true. Although the man may not read with real intent, I was given the confirmation I was praying for and it was an awesome feeling!
With Thanksgiving this week, I want to tell you all what I'm grateful for. I'm grateful for my family and the way they raised me to not let me go too far off the chain so I could come out here. I'm grateful for this gospel and the blessing it is to spend this time sharing it with people. I'm grateful for the Atonement and the opportunity it gives me to become better and to know that I am not alone in anything I do. I'm grateful for all of you, my friends and spiritual brothers and sisters and the light you are to the world! Most of all, I'm grateful for my Lord, Savior, and Friend, Jesus Christ and that because of Him, all of this is possible.
I love you all and I hope you have a great week spending time reflecting on what you have been given!
Elder Goldsberry
"I Kicked Down a Door Last Week"
Hey everyone!
This week was a great one as always! We had a baptism for the UBC that our bishop referred us to. The mom knew President Leishman and asked him to speak at the baptism so that was pretty cool! The Leishmans also had some of their kids and grandkids here so we got to see them at the baptism.
We've all gotten sick this week! Not too sick to work of course, but it's still not fun being sick. We had a cool Thanksgiving! In the morning we went to a park with one of our wards for a turkey bowl and played some football. Then we had a lunch with some members and they had some of the best dang turkey and stuffing I ever done tasted. After that, we just kinda hung out with the zone at a church building and played some games.
So last week our door got locked, and it was a deadbolt. (We still don't know who locked it) We didn't have the key so I went to a side door and kicked it down call of duty style. It felt so cool. We searched the house looking for someone who was messing with us but found nothing. All the doors and windows were locked so we are confused as to how it happened haha.
Not much else went on this week. Just been a lot of hard work! I love you all have a great week!
"Anotha One"
Hey everyone!
Not a whole lot went on this week. We had interviews with President Leishman and we got no transfer buzz at all so our transfer calls this Saturday will be a surprise. We pulled up to a knocking spot the other day and out of nowhere there was this good boy sitting outside of our car, I'll send the video and pictures.
The Christmas devotional yesterday was way sweet! We watched it with a way cool family and it was a ton of fun! It rained wayyyyy hard this week when we were on exchanges and Elders Rose and Butterfield and I got SOAKED!! Easily the most soaked I've been on my mission and there was a ton of lightning. It was literally like taking a shower out there, it was nuts. Everyone we knocked into just said we were soaked and gonna get struck by lightning haha.
Well I love you all have a great week!
